We Mark London After Atlantic Flight World Tour Entry
A narrator and partner begin a London leg of a world tour noting Britain’s capital shows deep fatigue after wartime strain. The columnist recalls 1942 weariness, contrasts with postwar letdown, and cites a London bus conductor describing public fatigue. Continued on Page Two.
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Atlantic
Coldifore
Mackenzie
Macks
Oraavek
Apa
Britain
England
Fema
Hull testifies on Pearl Harbor fleet decision
Former Secretary Cordell Hull says the State Department was fully justified in keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 crisis and relations with Japan. He defends the move as prudent after the fleet was based there and notes the danger posed by Japan. Hull and others testify before a Senate House committee investigating the Pearl Harbor disaster.
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Cordell Hull
State Department
Pearl Harbor
Senate
Japan
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Gesell
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Richardson
Senate-House
Sumner Welles
Welles
Frank Walker
Indonesians Retreat as Java Fighting Flare
British reports say Indonesians retreat south from Soerabaja toward Malang while fighting flares in Batavia. Indonesian forces with tanks and guns are dispersed near a Soerabaja hospital. Indian troops suffer casualties. Rocket strikes hit Jakarta and Solo radio stations as Sjahrir urges calm.
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Java
Soerabaja
Malang
Jogjakarta
Soerakarta
Sutan Sjahrir
Fear 40 School Children Drowned In Bus Plunge
WENATCHEE Wash Nov Sheriff Bruce Parkinson said it was believed 40 school children may have drowned when a school bus left the highway and plunged into Lake Chelan during a blinding snowstorm. The bus carried 50 students and seven or eight escaped. victims unable to be identified by 10 15 am. The Twenty Five Mile Creek bus route en route to Chelan school.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Bruce Parkinson
Lake Chelan
Parkinson
Chelan
Royal Randall
Chelan Boat Company
Sheriff's Office
State Patrol
Marshall Receives Oak Leaf Cluster From Truman
President Truman awards Gen. George C. Marshall the oak leaf cluster with the distinguished service medal for World War I service at the Pentagon. Marshall, retiring after six years as chief of staff, praises armed forces and home front workers and credits Truman for leadership ending the war swiftly.
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Washington
Truman
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Army
Pentagon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tru Victory
Europe
Pacific
Local electrician traps bulb thief at Junaluska cross
At Lake Junaluska the cross atop the Methodist assembly grounds had 32 bulbs stolen. An inventive electrician rigged an electric trap on the cross and a prowler who drove up to steal bulbs was shocked and fled, with no further thefts reported.
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Lake Junaluska
Jap Hell Hole Well Equipped Says Witness
Manila dispatch reports a Japanese defense witness for Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita stating that the Orouku Maru hell hole was well equipped and comfortable for prisoners taken aboard last December 13. The witness contrasted treatment with forced marches and noted Koh’s inquiry about prisoner conditions.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Shigeru Koh
Washington Conference Strikes Gripped Nation Amid Labor Stand
The 75,000 CIO employees of a major mail order house began a one week demonstration strike while the Ward labor action widens with CIO unions urged to picket 600 Ward stores in 42 states. Other big walkouts involve GM and lumber unions as the Washington labor conference faces a final uncertain week.
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CIO
United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Northwest Pacific Lumber
AFL
Maine
Ward
Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
Labor Department
National Labor Relations Board
Losses Feared If Deserters Are Deported
Gen Helge Jung warned that force might be needed if 2700 German and Baltic deserters in Swedish camps are deported to the Russian zone. Russia demanded extradition of the deserters and Sweden faced potential losses from the action.
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Stockholm
Helge Jung
Germany
Russia
Automobile Crash Claims Life of Arthur Brown
In Badin near Albemarle a Saturday night wreck left 31 year old Arthur Lee Brown fatally injured after admission to a Charlotte hospital. Nesbit Leonard, 26, among others injured in the same collision, was treated for injuries.
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Badin
Arthur Lee Brown
Charlotte
Albemarle
Nesbit Leonard
Chiang Kai-Shek proposes new economic deal for China
Chang Kai-Shek creates a supreme economic council chaired by Premier Soong to plan major five year projects. He vows to raise living standards and asserts government will marshal national resources to spur internal order while Manchuria advances toward Mukden and reports of communist activity continue.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Supreme Economic Council
Manchuria
Great
Mukden
T. V. Soong
Chiang
Japan
Nea
Manchy
Novem
Chinhsien
Manchurian
Orlando May Be Key Man In Move To Aid Italy
Rome reports Vittorio Emanuele Orlando an eight five year old statesman seeks to resolve Italy's government crisis. He is acceptable to Christian democrats and right wing liberals and labor democrats. If the communist party agrees to join, a cabinet could form quickly. Orlando conferred with Crown Prince Umberto as he presses to end the crisis after Premier Parri resigned.
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Rome
Vittorio Emanuel Orlando
Italy
Orlando
Christian Democratic Party
Labor Democrats
Communist Party
Umberto
Ferruccio Parri
Evidence links Nazi leaders to Pearl Harbor incitement
American prosecutors at the international war crimes tribunal presented stenographic notes of talks between Adolf Hitler and Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. They argued Nazi conspirators incited and planned actions risking war with the United States, including plots against Czechoslovakia and Russia.
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Hitler
Yosuke Matsuoka
Pearl Harbor
United States
U. S
Sidney S. Alderman
Thomas
Russia
Alderman
Czechslovakia
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
US Proposes Iran War Forces Withdraw by Jan 1
United States proposes to Britain and Russia that armed forces of all three nations withdraw from Iran by January 1. Harriman delivered the note in Moscow and the State Department publicly released it. Allied diplomats fear the Azerbaijan uprising may test UN peace efforts and Iran may file charges at the January UN meeting in London.
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Washington
United States
Iran
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Moscow
State Department
Russia
Azerbaijan
United Nations
Red Army
Loveit
V. M. Molotov
Madjid Ahy
Molotov
United Nations Organization
London
Middle Eastern
G I Brides to America Could Reach One Hundred Thousand
Washington reports a top estimate that as many as 100000 American G I s may have married foreign women. So far 22000 have applied for permission and 6000 to 8000 brides monthly may enter starting January. Estimates include 60000 English wives 5000 to 15000 in Europe and 20000 to 25000 from Australia or New Zealand.
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Washington
G.I
United States
War Department
Army
State Department
British Troops Impose Curfew Along Palestine Coast
British sixth airborne troops impose a curfew along over half the Palestine coast from 5:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. after 144 Palestinian police were wounded in Jewish attacks on coast guard stations at Givat Olga and Sidna. A party of armed Jews wrecked the stations and an unexploded bomb was found at Sidna.
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Jerusalem
Sixth Airborne
Palestine
A. L. Boss
Lydda
Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Givat Olga
Sidna
Hull and Grew Testify on Lead-up to Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull told Congress the 1941 Japanese note showed no peaceful path and Joseph C. Grew reviewed events before the December 7 attack. Congress also eyed the UN relief fund appropriations and debated universal military training and U.S. joining the United Nations.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Congress
Japan
Joseph C. Grew
Pearl Harbor
Grew
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Senate Appropriations Committee
U. S
Senate
United Nations
One Man Dies In Auto Accident In Hendersonville
George Thompson Pace 16 of Saluda died after an auto overturned on the Hendersonville Greenville highway near Lake Summit. Four companions injured, Pace thrown through the roof as they were transported to a hospital.
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Hendersonville
George Thompson Pace
Saluda
Greenville
S.C
Lake Summit
Pace
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